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The wages question is perhaps the most important branch of political economy and its subjective treatment is attained by the use of statistics. But it is essential that the user of statistics should understand the proper method for constructing them, and the attendant difficulties. There are four great sources of...
The difficulties of obtaining correct data are almost insurmountable. In the first place all figures must be obtained by personal inspection, for a manufacturer answering a letter of inquiry would be sure to fall into one or more of the fatal errors enumerated above. The proper method of constructing a...
These difficulties are aggravated by the varying rates of wages which are paid in the same manufacturing concern. In some mills, for instance, weavers are paid from 60 cents to $1.49 a day, there being perhaps fifty rates between the two extremes. Calculations can be made here only on the...
The problem for the statistician is a difficult one. He must use no a priori methods but must analyze accurately a great mass of facts and give the public results that can be depended upon.
H. I. Foster '98 has been appointed professor of Greek at St. Stephen's College, Annandale, N. Y.